Kiwi BBC Presenter Back Home for Summer
Taranaki-born Kiwi Lucy Hockings is the face of BBC World News. As a presenter for BBC World News she enjoys about 178 million viewers daily.
Although the BBC is the most British of institutions, Lucy’s accent has remained in place:
Having lived in the UK for more than a decade, her accent has softened but she’s proud of it, despite early attempts by her employers to have those vowels ironed out and complaints from viewers who were annoyed at “that young Australian girl reading the news!”
“When I started the accent was a huge problem and I was sent to the Royal Academy of Drama for speech lessons. They were unsuccessful.
“My accent is part of who I am and I work for an international broadcaster and it’s a good reflection of the newsroom, which is very international.”
You can read more of the interview here.
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Indeed. She used to report for TVNZ.
so…you think generally english women-ugly?maybe…don t know…
she is very very very very very veryyyyyyyyy sexyyyyyy i d just like to give her a big hug a very big hug i love her very much
but u are so ugly and for you it s just not so easy to speak about beauty isn it ???
very beautiful voice anyway…